Rosa Yi
យី រ៉ូហ្សា

Rosa YI holds a BA in Education from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia and MA in International Relations (International Development and Policy Studies) from Waseda University, Japan. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in human geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is an awardee of the NUS–Harvard-Yenching Institute Joint PhD scholarship. His dissertation research titled “Political ecologies of agrarian commodification and labor migration in Cambodia” examines how capitalist development of agriculture transforms agrarian socio-natural landscapes, shapes rural livelihood trajectories, and produces different geographies of labor migration. Using a multi-sited ethnographic approach, the research explores, through the experiences of smallholder farmers, how commodity production and labor migration under contemporary capitalism intersect and transform socio-natural relations.